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Imagination

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In the drawer

my love is folded

like playing cards.

I turn this over

and find myself lost

in the open space of possibilities.

Frightened by the hardness of being,

wanting this to go, along with the

pat on the back and good cheers of courage.

Wanting my pulse still for a moment

and all bloodties mended and forgiven.

In the books I read

I think myself a new person.

I am there, just after the French Revolution,

in the parlours and prisons. I am not

lonely, but freed of reproach, sending

a gift of light to all my enemies.

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Copyright © 2000 by Allison Grayhurst

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.First published in “The Piker Press” October 2015

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“Allison Grayhurst intertwines a potent spirituality throughout her work so that each poem is not simply a statement or observation, but a revelation that demands the reader’s personal involvement. Grayhurst’s poetic genius is profound and evident. Her voice is uniquely authentic, undeniable in its dignified vulnerability as it is in its significance,” Kyp Harness, singer/songwriter, author.

“Allison Grayhurst’s poems are like cathedrals witnessing and articulating in unflinching graphic detail the gritty angst and grief of life, while taking it to rare clarity, calm and comfort. Grayhurst’s work is haunting, majestic and cleansing, often leaving one breathless in the wake of its intelligence, hope, faith and love amidst the muck of life. Many of Allison Grayhurst’s poems are simply masterpieces. Grayhurst’s poetry is a lighthouse of intelligent honour… indeed, intelligence rips through her work like white water,” Taylor Jane Green, Registered Spiritual Psychotherapist and author.

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